The Cape Bird Club
Counts – Strandfontein – May 2002
photograph by Greg Morgan
White Pelican
| Wind | NW |
| Weather | cloudy |
| Leader | Dick Barnes |
|
Species |
Presence |
Species |
Presence |
|
GREBES |
– |
COUCALS | – |
| Great Crested |
13 |
Burchell's Coucal |
– |
| Blacknecked | 256 | OWLS | – |
| Dabchick | 930 + chicks | Spotted Eagle Owl | – |
| PELICANS | – | SWIFTS | – |
| White Pelican | 165 | Black Swift | 425 |
| CORMORANTS | – | Whiterumped Swift | – |
| Whitebreasted Cormorant | 75 | Little Swift | 75 |
| Cape Cormorant | 113 | Alpine Swift | – |
| Reed Cormorant | 6 | MOUSEBIRDS | – |
| DARTERS | – | Whitebacked Mousebird | – |
| Darter | 14 | Redfaced | – |
| HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS | – | KINGFISHERS | – |
| Grey Heron | 8 | Pied Kingfisher | – |
| Blackheaded Heron | 13 | Giant Kingfisher | – |
| Purple Heron | 3 | Malachite Kingfisher | 1 |
| Blackcrowned Night Heron | – | BARBETS | – |
| Little Egret | 1 | Acacia Pied Barbet | – |
| Yellow billed Egret | – | LARKS AND FINCHLARKS | – |
| Cattle Egret | 111 | Redcapped Lark | – |
| Little Bittern | – | SWALLOWS AND MARTINS | – |
| IBIS AND SPOONBILLS | – | European Swallow | – |
| Sacred Ibis | 117 | Whitethroated Swallow | 6 |
| Glossy Ibis | 67 | Greater Striped Swallow | – |
| Hadeda Ibis | 2 | Pearlbreasted Swallow | – |
| African Spoonbill | 1 | Black Sawwing | – |
| FLAMINGOES | – | Rock Martin | – |
| Greater Flamingo | 1846 | Brownthroated Martin | 102 |
| Lesser Flamingo | 1 | CROWS AND RAVENS | – |
| DUCKS AND GEESE | – | Pied Crow | 1 |
| Spurwinged Goose |
– |
Whitenecked Raven | 3 |
| Egyptian Goose | 276 | BULBULS | – |
| Shelduck | 2 | Cape Bulbul | 38 |
| Yellowbilled Duck | 76 | THRUSHES, CHATS, ALETHES, ROBINS AND ROCKJUMPERS | – |
| Hotentot Teal | – | Olive Thrush | – |
| Red-billed Teal | 218 | Cape Robin Chat | 6 |
| Cape Teal | 572 | Karoo Robin | – |
| Cape Shoveller | 1899 | TITBABBLERS, WARBLERS, APALISES, CROMBECS, CISTICOLAS AND PRINIAS | – |
| Southern Pochard | 273 | Cape Reed Warbler | 15 |
| Whitefaced Duck | – | African Sedge Warbler | 15 |
| Whitebacked Duck | 10 | African Marsh Warbler | – |
| Maccoa | 200 + chicks | Grassbird | – |
| KITES | – | Fantailed Cisticola | 8 |
| Black Shouldered Kite | 3 | Levaillant's Cisticola | 36 |
| Yellowbilled Kite | – | Greybacked Cisticola | – |
| EAGLES | – | Karro Prinia | 16 |
| African Fish Eagle | 3 | WAGTAILS, PIPITS AND LONGCLAWS | – |
| BUZZARDS | – | Cape Wagtail | 59 |
| Black Eagles | 2 | Grassveld Pipit | – |
| GOSHAWKS AND SPARROWHAWKS | – | Orangethroated Longclaw | – |
| Redbreasted Sparrowhawk | – | SHRIKES | – |
| Black Sparrowhawk | – | Fiscal Shrike | 1 |
| African Goshawk |
– |
Fiscal Flycatcher | 3 |
| HARRIERS | – | Bokmakierie | 5 |
| African Marsh Harrier | 11 | STARLINGS | – |
| FALCONS AND KESTRELS | – | Commom Starling | 152 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 1 | Redwing Starling | 1 |
| Lanner Falcon | – | SUGARBIRDS AND SUNBIRDS | – |
| Rock Kestrel | – | Wattled Starling | 1 |
| FRANCOLIN AND QUAIL | – | Lesser Double collared Sunbird | 2 |
| Cape Francolin | – | WHITE EYES | – |
| GUINEAFOWL | – | Cape White Eye | 9 |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | 14 | SPARROWS, WEAVERS, BISHOPS AND WIDOWS | – |
| RAIL, CRAKES, FLUFFTAILS, GALLINULES, MOORHENS AND COOTS | – | House Sparrow | – |
| Black Crake | – | Cape Sparrow | 6 |
| African Purple Swamp hen | 22 | Cape Weaver | 9 |
| Moorhen | 134 | Southern Masked Weaver | 3 |
| Redknobbed Coot | 749 | Red Bishop | 88 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 5 | Yellowrumped Widow | – |
| PLOVERS | – | WAXBILLS | – |
| Threebanded Plover | 82 | Common Waxbill | 42 |
| Whitefronted | – | Pintailed Whydah | – |
| Kittlitz's | 1 | CANARIES, SISKINS, FINCHES AND BUNTINGS | – |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | 65 | Cape Canary | 43 |
| Ringed Plover | – | Bully Canary | 1 |
| Crowned Plover | – | OTHER | – |
| Rednecked Phalarope | – | Mallard/Dutch Quacker | – |
| SNIPES, GODWITS, SANDPIPERS, STINTS, CURLEWS AND PHALAROPES, RUFF, STINT | – | Ostrich | – |
| Common Sandpiper | – |
total species |
76 |
| Wood | – | – | – |
| Marsh Sandpiper | – | – | – |
| Curlew | – | – | – |
| Greenshank | – | – | – |
| Little Stint | – | – | – |
| Ruff | – | – | – |
| African Snipe | – | – | – |
| AVOCETS AND STILTS | – | – | – |
| Blackwinged Stilt | 259 | – | – |
| Pied Avocet | 125 | – | – |
| DIKKOPS | – | – | – |
| Spotted Thickknees | – | – | – |
| Water Thickknees | – | – | – |
| SKUAS, GULLS AND TERNS | – | – | – |
| Kelp Gull | 1032 | – | – |
| Greyheaded Gull | 4 | – | – |
| Hartlaubs Gull | 160 | – | – |
| Caspian Tern | – | – | – |
| Swift Tern | 5 | – | – |
| Sandwich Tern | – | – | – |
| Common Tern | – | – | – |
| Whitewinged | – | – | – |
| PIGEONS AND DOVES | – | – | – |
| Feral Pigeon | 70 | – | – |
| Rock Pigeon | 4 | – | – |
| Redeyed Dove | – | – | – |
| Cape Turtle Dove | 9 | – | – |
| Laughing Dove | 4 | – | – |
| CUCKOOS | – | – | – |
| Klaas's Cuckoo | – | – | – |
| Diederik Cuckoo | – | – | – |
